Last night it started raining off and on during the WS game. It would rain hard for a few minutes, then stop. Typical stuff. Starting about 10:00 it rained hard and didn't stop. Between 10 and 4:00 AM we got over 10" of rain. Some stations nearby reported 14.5".

I've never seen so much water. Luckily we (who live on a hillside) didn't get water in the house. That was a near thing (and exhausting). But we did have a lot of erosion. Our next door neighbor, 86 years, had 2" in her kitchen and bedroom. We pumped her dry as fast as the water was coming in for several hours until the rain finally stopped.

It was one of those unexpected events. We added 12,000 gallons to our rainwater tank (and we weren't even collecting water on one of our roofs because the gutter failed.

This picture of the SRV statute on Town Lake is just wild. http://www.statesman.com/weblogs/all-abl...-lady-bir/